Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". ... The main focus will be the traces of Freud's ideas on the "Life and Death Drives", "Guilt Complex", "Fixation", "Sublimation", "Dream work" and "Ideal Female complex" in this short story. ... Discussion At First, when Poe wrote this short tale he called it "Life in Death" but later he changed its title to "The Oval Portrait" .As an overall picture or a summary for the...

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Poe was able to find money though by publishing short stories and found a job working for the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. ... But again his success was short lived as his magazine soon failed, and shortly after, his love Virginia Clemm died at the age of twenty-four in 1847. ... He found another love interest in Sarah Whitman, but again their engagement was short-lived, lasting only one month. ... " Considered one of his most famous writings, "Ligeia" tells the story of a man, also known as the narrator of this story, and his love and loss of his late wife, lady Lig...

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In fact, he wrote nearly seventy short works of fiction. He is credited with creating the detective story genre and with transforming the Gothic mystery tale of the Romantic Period. Poe developed a theory that he applied to both his short stories and his poems. Its most basic principle was that in short fiction and poetry, the writer should aim at creating a single and total psychological or spiritual effect upon the reader. ... Line 21, "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping. . ."" has the repetitive short "a- sound in "fact,"" "napping,"" and "rapping."" ...

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I read many of his short stories and realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. ... For the purpose of this Essay I shall analyze four of Poe's short stories; "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," The Masque of The Red Death," and "The Tell-tale Heart." ... Many of the characters in Poe's stories seem to be insane. ... Even though there are many more elements to Edgar Allan Poe's short stories than just his creative use of narration and setting, these are characteristics, which have attracted the most attention. ... As in other Poe stori...

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He wrote about his impressions of the London school in a story called "William Wilson". ... In 1832 he won a $50 prize for his story "MS. ... Many of his best stories were written as part of his editorial work. ...

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It is obvious through the many works of Edgar Allan Poe, that the author's life was marked with much tragedy in regards to women. Several of his poems seem to be a direct reflection of his trials in life having to deal with the death or loss of many of the women who were very close to him. Some o...

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